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...With reporting by Isabella Ng and Wendy Kan/Hong Kong
...Reported by Isabella Ng and Maureen Tkacik/Hong Kong
...room installation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum entitled "The Living Room," artist-in-residence Lee Mingwei attempts to bridge the gap between art and the public in an innovative, interactive exhibition. Inspired by the spirit of hospitality and intellectual exchange that characterized Gardner's turn-of-the-century salon lifestyle, "The Living Room" rejects the notion of the traditional art object in favor of a participatory process in which the visitor's own aesthetic experience constitutes the finished product. Rather than look at anything in particular, Lee encourages "viewers" to discuss their aesthetic ideas in a warm and friendly...
...Drop by Lee Mingwei's "The Living Room" inside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at 280 The Fenway in Boston, a few hundred yards from the Museum of Fine Arts, close to the Museum T stop on the Green Line. The installation runs through April 30. Hours are Tue. through Sun., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults, but only $5 ($3 on Wednesdays) with a student...
...cardamom, is among the best in the world. But when did Arabs last win a war? Or the Italians, who have given the world the Gaggia and the macchiato? Indeed, the Muslim states are the best case in point. Arab power was done in for good when Ferdinand and Isabella demolished the last Moorish stronghold on Iberian soil in 1492. This was no accident, comrades, as the Soviets used to say. It so happens that qahwa came into widespread use throughout the Islamic world in the mid-15th century. Fifty years later, Arab power was finished. And soon after...